I surely didn’t even know that I would ever be a good candidate for working remotely.
The corporation I work for particularly made a giant push for those with similar jobs as mine to take incentives to work from home.
This was well before the pandemic shut down the zone-controlled heating, ventilation, and A/C and sent all the people home to work in their own air conditioning. When I was asked if I wanted to go to work at home, it didn’t take me a second to say no. I liked working inside the zone controlled heating, ventilation, and A/C of the office. And besides, I was far too social a person to particularly work at home alone. Well, that’s not exactly right as I have a pair of high college kids still at home. But they are in college or working or dating or whatever most of the time so it’s not like they would be a distraction. So I simply believe I should be shocked to still be working from home when most of my colleagues are right back to work. Apparently, I did the best work of my job while I was at home and the bosses took notice. So when I came back to work with all the other people, I wasn’t at my desk an hour before I was called into the boss’s office. And again, I was given all sorts of incentives to trade the commercial heating, ventilation, and A/C of the office for the central air conditioning of my home. And this time, I definitely said yes. It was tough not to with the incentives and the bonus structure that were put in front of me. The first thing I did was to have the heating, ventilation, and A/C corporation come out to install a ductless heat pump in my living room. I cherish having my own quality heating and air in my office.